Digital Counter Need of the Hour

In today’s advancing technological era digitalization has played a major hand in the development of technological usage. Everywhere from domestics to small scale industries and to large scale worldwide spread industries we have started making the prudent use of technological framework. The application of scientific rules and laws has brought our world so much ahead of times that every single task needs to apply it one way or the other. In fact, to carry out any activity systematically we apply the scientific approach. This application is what technology is all about and it has made us bid adieu to the simplicity of earlier times but that is only for the better. Several of our tasks can be easily concluded by using correct form of technology sensibly. Counters are one such requirement of today without which we cannot deal with many day to day counting activities of ours. Digital Counter is the most suitable instrument for this purpose.

Counting as the word means literally, is an operation of getting the record of how many times the occurrence of any particular event has taken place and this operation can be best performed by Digital Counter. An electronic device Digital Counter is which works on a simple principle of sequential pulse based logic. It gets the count of numbers through shifting of binary digits and displays the result on the screen in terms of Decimal digits. Take Digital Alarm as an example of Digital Counter application. This is the simplest form of counting practices electronically and displaying results digitally. Not in terms of exemplary usage of Digital Counter we can explain this product as the world around us makes its use in plenty from clocks, watches, microwave ovens, VCRs to Computer Memory Pointers. High end application of Digital Counters is witnessed especially in computers as memory pointers. Even automobiles industry utilizes it during testing of vehicles.

When it comes to what specifications of Digital Counter is then we can note down following:

1.      Counts presented in both the directions that is as forward and as backward loop

2.      Precisely counting the event occurrences

3.      Very Accurate in counting

4.      In Science labs its efficiency helps in safely and accurately recording precise readings

5.      Easily counts the numbers which are cumbersome in normal human practices

6.      Very economical, easy to operate, handle and maintain

The design of Digital Counter and its construction is far easier than many machinery products. Here is the theory of Digital Counter Construction-

Single bit storage and counting device flip flop is used in collective numbers as basic element that after being fed by clock pulses increases the digit count by one which is recorded and shown on the screen. The logic is simple sequential one that goes on counting one by one the numbers. There are many different types of Digital Counters available that differ in usual practice but being same fundamentally. Among these many counters the best one is considered to be binary or ripple counter that makes use of asynchronous clock pulse and J-K Flip Flops.